St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-01-01
LADIES' MUSTACHES.
Removing Them With q Gold Nee.
die and Battery.

Electricity and Acids - Destroyer oi
Blanched. Wrinkles Ersdicsted. Warts
and Birth-Aarka washed Away.
pale young man. wearing . gener-
ally lean and hungry look and specific
brown mole on the epidermis just over
his right cheek bone. passed down
Fourth and up one of the cross streets
at about nine o'clock last Sunday morn
ing. When he rang the bell at the
doorway of trim brick building near
Fifth street the mole On his check was
decorated with growth Of hair which
might have given his mustachc odds
and then beaten it by hundred and
fifty points When he emerged, twenty
minutes later. the mole was bleached to
a pale tan color. and the growth of
hair was gone.
'.Is the doctor mp he asked. upon
servants answering his ring.
''Yes. sir; step up stairs. please"
There were about q dozen steps to
step up before the comfortably-fed fig
ure of the doctor met him on the velvet
rug at the open door of the consulta-
tion-room. The doctor was young. but
q few gray hairs in his otherwise sandy
mustache and an intellectual thinning
of his hair in the region of the occiput
told that he was not too young, but just
young enough.
Can remove those hairs from the
mole on your cheek?" he repeated in
answer to the young mans question.
"Yes. sir. most certainly can do so.
and not only that, but l can remove the
mole as well.'
"How much?''
From a nominal up to an indefinite
price"
..Ah."
IF you wish the hairs taken away
temporarily and bottle of depilatory
with which you may remove them your
self in after times. the charge will be
nominal; but If you wish the hair
eradicted root and branch. 80 that it
will never return. and the mole colored
to the normol condition of the cuticle,
the operation will require several sit
tings and the charge be corresponding
ly increased. Excuse me. one min
ute.''
He touched his finger to the hairy
mole and examined it closely for . sec
ond.
There are just nine strong hairs on
this blemish. he said. II can remove
them with electricity at one sitting; but
the removal Of the discolorat;on will be
. work of at least four operations
'.Fire away"
Take a seat in that chair. please. "
He indicated . plush-covered armchair
with rounded head-rest and after the
victim was seated he brought out from
an inner room black leather box, from
which dangled the insulated wires which
accompany every electric battery. To
the end of one Of the wires was affixed .
sponge electrode and to the other a very
slender. thorn-pointed needle was deli
catcly clamped.
..Now then" he said, pushing back
his cuffs with that brisk, professional air
which is associated with the tender
memories of dental experiences. .'this
box contains an eight-cell electric bat
tery. This sponge. which you will
grasp in your right hand. please-ah.
thank yo1-is the positive pole. This
needle-made Of gold. because that
metal is susceptible OF being brought to
a much finer point than the finest steel
needle, lhd the finer the point naturally
the smaller will b the puncture which
e win make in your skin; this needle is
the negative pole. When the needle
ncnetrstes the skin and touches the root
nf the hair it thus completes the circuit,
and 4 current of electricity rushes like
lightning 10 the point of the instrument,
and blasts the young hair in its prime
n fact il kills it Now don't start,
please: sit perfectly still.
The Young man felt slight tingling
vhen the needle point entered the
cnticle. The tingling continued for
.hont ten seconds, and . single coarse
hi.ck hair dropped from his face and
Sc.Ned TO the door. After . similar
onerstion had been performed eight
Simas his check was - smooth Is an in
fant'A and. beyond . slight sufiasion of
blood to the part. making the skin rosy
and reddening the obnoxious color OF
the mole. there were no v'sao'e enects
" .sTSst hair will never come back. Il
!. rct ofeea that / remove nine hairs
from a single spot at one sitting: but
-, Ain IS SO thick that judged the
y,.r;r~ Inflammation would not be
,nrsh and that you could safely stand
.Ss c,,eration; but I think it will be -
Wn .uJ II ~.;t tvo or three days before We
begin 70 reduce the other troobls-ths
discoloration- Undern no circumstances
10 I ever pull more than . dozen hairs
-;.h ~ sieotricity at one sitting. and then
! % make il . point not TO remove them in
ore : spot bat to take them one By one
from Sss :: i:res N e: :: pss:is; ps;.,,s': F.:
sss.ch.. from ladies' upper lips
.nd that is : profitable branch Of my
S.,s;peeslI first remove . hair
srom 6 tho sxtrens right end Of tne
mustaohs, then nom the exueme 'eos;
.,sc from the center, and 20 on ~
hava v0u ever noticed S0oS